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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 27, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 15, 2023
Plitek, L.l.c., Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Jeffrey R. Condon, Glenview, IL (US);
Plitek, L.L.C., Prospect Heights, IL (US);
Abstract
A package backer card with interlocking article-retaining tabs for improved retention of an article for packaging. A package backer card may include an article-support panel and one pair, or more than one pair, of opposed tabs formed of the panel. The panel may be of a pliant material having a memory. Each of the opposed tabs may have a shank and an inwardly facing clip. Each tab may initially be in a position extending away from the other. Each tab may be bendable outward from the panel toward the other tab to a position in which the clips interlock together to form a restraint for an article therebetween. Each shank may be under tension to return toward the panel from the material memory to keep the clips interlocked to secure the article to the panel. Methods of securement of an article to a package backer card are disclosed.